BMC/Intel-BMC/linux.git/Documentation, branch v4.17.9

arm64: Add 'ssbd' command-line option

2018-07-22T13:16:07+00:00

commit a43ae4dfe56a01f5b98ba0cb2f784b6a43bafcc6 upstream. On a system where the firmware implements ARCH_WORKAROUND_2, it may be useful to either permanently enable or disable the workaround for cases where the user decides that they'd rather not get a trap overhead, and keep the mitigation permanently on or off instead of switching it on exception entry/exit. In any case, default to the mitigation being enabled. Reviewed-by: Julien Grall Reviewed-by: Mark Rutland Acked-by: Will Deacon Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

kbuild: delete INSTALL_FW_PATH from kbuild documentation

2018-07-17T09:48:30+00:00

commit 3f9cdee5929b7d035e86302dcf08fbf3e80b0739 upstream. Removed Kbuild documentation for INSTALL_FW_PATH. The kbuild symbol INSTALL_FW_PATH was removed from Kbuild tools in September 2017 (for 4.14) but the symbol was not deleted from the kbuild documentation, so do that now. Fixes: 5620a0d1aacd ("firmware: delete in-kernel firmware") Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.14+ Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

cxl: Disable prefault_mode in Radix mode

2018-07-03T09:26:52+00:00

commit b6c84ba22ff3a198eb8d5552cf9b8fda1d792e54 upstream. Currently we see a kernel-oops reported on Power-9 while attaching a context to an AFU, with radix-mode and sysfs attr 'prefault_mode' set to anything other than 'none'. The backtrace of the oops is of this form: Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000080 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00800000bcf3b20 cpu 0x1: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c00000037f003800] pc: c00800000bcf3b20: cxl_load_segment+0x178/0x290 [cxl] lr: c00800000bcf39f0: cxl_load_segment+0x48/0x290 [cxl] sp: c00000037f003a80 msr: 9000000000009033 dar: 80 dsisr: 40000000 current = 0xc00000037f280000 paca = 0xc0000003ffffe600 softe: 3 irq_happened: 0x01 pid = 3529, comm = afp_no_int cxl_prefault+0xfc/0x248 [cxl] process_element_entry_psl9+0xd8/0x1a0 [cxl] cxl_attach_dedicated_process_psl9+0x44/0x130 [cxl] native_attach_process+0xc0/0x130 [cxl] afu_ioctl+0x3f4/0x5e0 [cxl] do_vfs_ioctl+0xdc/0x890 ksys_ioctl+0x68/0xf0 sys_ioctl+0x40/0xa0 system_call+0x58/0x6c The issue is caused as on Power-8 the AFU attr 'prefault_mode' was used to improve initial storage fault performance by prefaulting process segments. However on Power-9 with radix mode we don't have Storage-Segments that we can prefault. Also prefaulting process Pages will be too costly and fine-grained. Hence, since the prefaulting mechanism doesn't makes sense of radix-mode, this patch updates prefault_mode_store() to not allow any other value apart from CXL_PREFAULT_NONE when radix mode is enabled. Fixes: f24be42aab37 ("cxl: Add psl9 specific code") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.12+ Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain Acked-by: Frederic Barrat Acked-by: Andrew Donnellan Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

lib/vsprintf: Remove atomic-unsafe support for %pCr

2018-07-03T09:26:48+00:00

commit 666902e42fd8344b923c02dc5b0f37948ff4f225 upstream. "%pCr" formats the current rate of a clock, and calls clk_get_rate(). The latter obtains a mutex, hence it must not be called from atomic context. Remove support for this rarely-used format, as vsprintf() (and e.g. printk()) must be callable from any context. Any remaining out-of-tree users will start seeing the clock's name printed instead of its rate. Reported-by: Jia-Ju Bai Fixes: 900cca2944254edd ("lib/vsprintf: add %pC{,n,r} format specifiers for clocks") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1527845302-12159-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be To: Jia-Ju Bai To: Jonathan Corbet To: Michael Turquette To: Stephen Boyd To: Zhang Rui To: Eduardo Valentin To: Eric Anholt To: Stefan Wahren To: Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Petr Mladek Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-clk@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-renesas-soc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 4.1+ Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

doc: fix sysfs ABI documentation

2018-06-16T07:18:22+00:00

commit f59acbc5e0f7f90452efd4c3318d5e5ec042c3e0 upstream. In 4.9 kernel, the sysfs files for Hyper-V VMBus changed name but the documentation files were not updated. The current sysfs file names are /sys/bus/vmbus/devices//... See commit 9a56e5d6a0ba ("Drivers: hv: make VMBus bus ids persistent") and commit f6b2db084b65 ("vmbus: make sysfs names consistent with PCI") Reported-by: Michael Kelley Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

netdev-FAQ: clarify DaveM's position for stable backports

2018-06-11T20:43:18+00:00

[ Upstream commit 75d4e704fa8d2cf33ff295e5b441317603d7f9fd ] Per discussion with David at netconf 2018, let's clarify DaveM's position of handling stable backports in netdev-FAQ. This is important for people relying on upstream -stable releases. Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Cong Wang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net

2018-06-03T00:35:53+00:00

Pull networking fixes from David Miller: 1) Infinite loop in _decode_session6(), from Eric Dumazet. 2) Pass correct argument to nla_strlcpy() in netfilter, also from Eric Dumazet. 3) Out of bounds memory access in ipv6 srh code, from Mathieu Xhonneux. 4) NULL deref in XDP_REDIRECT handling of tun driver, from Toshiaki Makita. 5) Incorrect idr release in cls_flower, from Paul Blakey. 6) Probe error handling fix in davinci_emac, from Dan Carpenter. 7) Memory leak in XPS configuration, from Alexander Duyck. 8) Use after free with cloned sockets in kcm, from Kirill Tkhai. 9) MTU handling fixes fo ip_tunnel and ip6_tunnel, from Nicolas Dichtel. 10) Fix UAPI hole in bpf data structure for 32-bit compat applications, from Daniel Borkmann. * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net: (33 commits) bpf: fix uapi hole for 32 bit compat applications net: usb: cdc_mbim: add flag FLAG_SEND_ZLP ip6_tunnel: remove magic mtu value 0xFFF8 ip_tunnel: restore binding to ifaces with a large mtu net: dsa: b53: Add BCM5389 support kcm: Fix use-after-free caused by clonned sockets net-sysfs: Fix memory leak in XPS configuration ixgbe: fix parsing of TC actions for HW offload net: ethernet: davinci_emac: fix error handling in probe() net/ncsi: Fix array size in dumpit handler cls_flower: Fix incorrect idr release when failing to modify rule net/sonic: Use dma_mapping_error() xfrm Fix potential error pointer dereference in xfrm_bundle_create. vhost_net: flush batched heads before trying to busy polling tun: Fix NULL pointer dereference in XDP redirect be2net: Fix error detection logic for BE3 net: qmi_wwan: Add Netgear Aircard 779S mlxsw: spectrum: Forbid creation of VLAN 1 over port/LAG atm: zatm: fix memcmp casting iwlwifi: pcie: compare with number of IRQs requested for, not number of CPUs ...

Merge branch 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux

2018-06-02T16:52:22+00:00

Pull i2c fixes from Wolfram Sang: "A documentation bugfix and a MAINTAINERS addition" * 'i2c/for-current' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wsa/linux: i2c: ocores: update HDL sources URL i2c: xlp9xx: Add MAINTAINERS entry

net: dsa: b53: Add BCM5389 support

2018-06-01T15:15:42+00:00

This patch adds support for the BCM5389 switch connected through MDIO. Signed-off-by: Damien Thébault Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

i2c: ocores: update HDL sources URL

2018-05-29T18:14:32+00:00

The URL is broken. This patch fixes it. Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga [wsa: shortened the URL a bit] Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang